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Timelines of the Old

& New Testaments

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Four Views of the Old Testament

• Traditional view – texts dictated by God to Moses

• Or… Moses divinely inspired, but not dictated by God

• Or…Moses inspired like poet or artist• Or…there were different texts written

by four different authors

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Old Testament Timeline

• 1250 B.C. – oral history of the conquest of the land of Caanan

• 1000 – united tribes under King David, stories written by J-author (Judah view)

• 900 – death of Solomon sees kingdom split into Judah & Israel (10 tribes north). The northern view written by E-author that emphasize Moses

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• 722 B.C. – Assyria conquers Israel and some flee back to southern Judah. Two versions combined into JE version document. Thus two creation stories, two Ten Commandments, etc.

• 650 – Temple rites given in P-document, most is in Torah today

• 609 – “lost” scroll of Moses found, called the D-document, book of Deuteronomy

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• 580 – Judah conquered by Babylon and exiled for 50 years.

• 450 – A “Redactor” with lots of cuts and pastes, combines JE, P, and D into one smooth flowing narrative. The five books of Moses are assembled. There have been no more changes since that time.

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Moses sent Israel to war against the Midianites and slew all the males. But the soldiers returned to Moses with the women and children of the Midianites. Moses was angry and gave orders to…

“…kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath know man by lying with him. But all the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”

Numbers 31:17

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Some of the Other 600 Jewish Commandments

• “When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.”

• “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who designated her fo himself, then he shall let her be redeemed.”

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• “Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death. If it was not premeditated, but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.”

• “You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.”

• “Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.”

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“Put every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor… And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.”

Exodus 32: 27-28

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New Testament Timeline

• Year 36 – Jesus crucified

• By 62 – Paul writes Galations, Acts, etc.

• 65 – the Q Document composed

• 70 – Mark written based on Q Document

• 80 – Matthew written, Q & Mark source

• 90 – John written

• 100 – Peter written

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• 130 – Gospel of Basilaides – 24 books• 150 – Gospel of the Egyptions in Greek• 200 – Latin Bible translation in Carthage• 200 – Sahidic Coptic translation• 300 – Bohairic Coptic Bible trans.• 321 – Constantine declares Sunday rest• 350 – Codex Sinaiticus early Christian Bible• 384 – Jerome presents Latin Gospels• 400 – Augustine formalizes Christ. Theology

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• 400 – Pershitta Bible• 430 – Augustine creates “Original Sin”• 550 – Standard Eastern Bible• 690 – First English Bible• 1095 – first of ten crusades• 1206 – Rosary introduced by Dominic• 1382 – Wycliffe English OT & NT• 1522 – Luther German translation• 1525 – Tyndale translation

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• 1537 – Coverdal’s Bible

• 1551 – Matthew Bible by Rogers

• 1569 – Great Bible by Cromwell

• 1560 – Geneva Bible

• 1606 – Bishop’s Bible

• 1611 – King James Bible

• 1718 – Catholic English version

• 1815 – Catholic Bible Society NT

• 1870 – idea of papal infallibility

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• 1894 – Church of England revised version

• 1901 – American Standard Version

• 1924 – James Moffat Bible

• 1936 – Westminster NT

• 1949 – Basic English Bible

• 1950 – Knox Version

• 1952 – Revised Standardized Version

• 1958 – J.B. Phillip’s NT

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• 1961 – New English Bible

• 1966 – Jerusalem Bible

• 1971 – New American Standard Bible

• 1978 – New International Version

• 1982 – New King James Bible

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Basic References• BrainyEncyclopedia. Timeline of Christianity,

retrieved at www.brainyencyclopedia.com• Cambridge History of the Bible• Spong, John. Rescuing the Bible from

Fundamentalism. Harper, San Francisco. • Straight Dope Science Advisory Board. Who wrote

the Bible, retrieved at www.straightdope.com